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Utopia Avenue: A Novel

by David Mitchell

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Utopia Avenue: A Novel by David Mitchell appears in NPR’s 2020 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, historical fiction, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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